Locations

Google Earth project with map of locations referenced in the play. Locations can also be found individually in the Glossary below.

Glossary

• Shaw (George Bernard Shaw) - Irish. One of the most significant playwrights since the 17th Century. He wrote “drama of moral passion and of intellectual conflict and debate”. Also one of the major political writers and advocates of his time.

• Barbara (MAJOR BARBARA) - Shaw satire mocking religious hypocrisy. “Barbara Undershaft, a major in the Salvation Army, is estranged from her wealthy father, Andrew Undershaft, a munitions manufacturer. Although the Salvation Army condemns war, it gladly accepts a donation of £5,000 from her warmonger father, and she resigns in protest. The Army offers the poor only salvation, while Undershaft takes steps toward eradicating poverty. Barbara later comes to accept her father’s views on capitalism and to believe that the greatest evil is the degradation caused by grinding poverty.”

• The Jewel In The Crown - Extremely successful BBC series based on Paul Scott’s Raj novels.

• Lamb House - National Trust property once the home of writers Henry James and E.F. Benson.

• Barbican Towers - the large residential towers developed in the Barbican Estate, a “city within the city” of London. Built after bombing destroyed the area during World War II, the Estate houses, a library, museum, several schools, and the Barbican Arts Centre.

• Case Western Reserve University - Private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Ranked #53 in American Universities in 2023.

• Foyle’s Bookshop - Up until 2005, Foyle’s was known as the world’s largest new and used bookstore in terms of miles of shelf space. It had an arcane organizing and payment system that was updated. Books were categorized by publisher, rather than author or title. The building and system were updated about 20 years ago and was bought by Waterstone’s in 2018.

• Booth - Wayne Booth. Groundbreaking modern literary critic on faculty at the University of Chicago.

• Dillon’s - Competitor of Foylee’s.

• Simon Gray - British dramatist whose plays are often set in academia and are “noted for their challenging storylines, witty, literary dialogue, and complex characterizations.” Known mostly for his play, BUTLEY, “about a petulant university professor whose venomous wit masks an inner emptiness.”

• Royal Court - one of the most important English theatres of the last century, known for championing new playwrights.

• Wyndham’s - West End theatre that usually books previously well-received transfers or productions with a respected pedigree.

• Rialto - Casino located on Leicester Square.

• Amherst - Private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts.

• Tate - Tate Britain. Museum of British art. One of the largest museums in Britain and one of the most visited art museums in the world.

• Hamley’s - World’s oldest toy store., with seven floors on Regent Street.

• Aldwych - Aldwych Theatre, on the Strand near Waterloo Bridge. The Aldwych Farces were 12 farces writeen by Ben Travers that were performed continuously at the Aldwych Theatre from 1923-1933.

• Edmund Wilson - Widely ragarded as one of the most important literary critics of the 20th Century.